torture
Explanation
The Joke
An interrogator threatens a captive, telling him "You will talk or die." He then asks "Do you know what these are, Mr. Bonds?" while holding up what appear to be socks. The captive defiantly says "Never!" and the interrogator responds "Glasses!" The twist comes in the next panel when the interrogator explains he will be putting the glasses on the captive's face, but instead of a painful torture, he says "You'll just put them on yourself, over and over and over." The final panel reveals the punchline: "The microfilm is in my socks" -- the captive breaks not from pain but from the tedious annoyance of having to repeatedly put on glasses.
The comic subverts the classic spy thriller interrogation scene. The expectation is brutal torture, but instead the "torture" is something mundanely irritating -- being forced to repeatedly put on glasses. It is a parody of the James Bond-style interrogation trope where the villain always has elaborate devices.
The Humor
The humor lies in the massive gap between the dramatic setup (a life-or-death interrogation) and the hilariously mundane "torture" method. The captive -- addressed as "Mr. Bonds" in a nod to James Bond -- breaks under the most trivial of annoyances rather than any real threat. The final confession about the microfilm being in his socks completes the spy movie parody with an equally absurd hiding spot. It pokes fun at how, in real life, minor repetitive annoyances can be more maddening than dramatic threats.